Fans still make fun of Jared Goff for sunrise gaffe on 'Hard Knocks'

Being selected to appear on “Hard Knocks” isn’t something any team wants, let alone one with a rookie quarterback who was just selected No. 1 overall by a team moving to a new city. That’s exactly the position Jared Goff was put in two years ago when the Rams were tapped to be featured on HBO’s show, and needless to say, it didn’t go very well.

The Rams struggled mightily in 2016 as their offseason was put on full display during training camp and eventually into the regular season (thanks to “All or Nothing”), with Goff being at the forefront the entire time.

One of the most embarrassing moments of the show happened when Goff couldn’t tell a coach where the sun rose. He had no idea. He was made fun of by fans everywhere, especially in this era of social media, and it seems many haven’t forgotten that moment.

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“All the time. All the time. Every game I’ll hear, ‘Hey, where does the sun rise?!’ I hear it all the time,” Goff said on Barstool Radio. “The next day, someone came up to me and said, ‘Hey, they’re going to air that sun stuff.’ And I’m like, ‘Alright, how are they gonna frame this?’”

Goff said he now knows that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, but fans won’t let him forget that minor lapse in intelligence. That’s what happens when everything from your rookie season is filmed by cameras, which is why teams hate appearing on the show.

Goff was actually asked if there was anything enjoyable about being on “Hard Knocks.” His answer was simple.

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“No, zero. Not one thing. And we were on it from – I was drafted in April, and as soon as we landed in L.A. it was like ‘Hard Knocks’ cameras. So you go through the whole offseason with it and we went through training camp – and the people are awesome, the NFL Films people are nice. There’s a camera in every room, you’re always looking around to see if it’s on, you’re always wondering if there’s a microphone under the table, you’re always on edge.

“We went into the season, and we thought, ‘OK, we’re done with training camp, Hard Knocks is done.’ Then they did ‘All or Nothing,’ the Amazon show. So I had a camera from when I got drafted to the end of the season the entire time.”

It’s easy to see why teams are strongly opposed to appearing on the show, simply because of the access the camera crews are given. It’s hard to have any sort of privacy when there are constantly cameras around, which can seriously hinder a rookie quarterback’s development.

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